Not kidding myself. It is not solely about oil. It is an important pinch point geopolitically, and there is much more than oil at stake. Oil has been no small part of it, though.
Don't kid yourself. They are solely about oil. Without oil we wouldn't give a damn about "projecting power in the region."
Try walking round Marrakesh with a Leica during Ramadan. I was given a bollocking by some local Herbert whilst taking photos of a door (no-one remotely in danger of being in the shot). Not being the smallest of people or a shy, retiring type, I taught him some Anglo-Saxon phrases he probably hadn't come across before.
Later in the week, I had a couple of guys demanding money for being in a "general" shot of the street we were walking down. They got short shrift as well.
The world is full of miserable sods who will chance their arm in the hope that we will shell out cash easily. If you're just shooting a general scene in a public place, then tough it out. If you want to photograph someone specific and you want to get in close, then it's only polite to ask their permission and to accede to their wishes, especially if they say "no". Candid shots can be fun but they can also be very hit and miss.
I used a digital camera so I'm not sure if it counts.
One of the main reasons for wars isn't about gaining territory, but about securing markets for a countrys manufactured goods (which was why America was so keen for the British Empire to break up after WW11, and the fact that Britain was massively in debt to them), China already has the major markets for western goods, the U.S.A. and many European countrys are already massively in debt to China which is a why she can apply enormous pressure on the west that could actually end in war.China will not want to be at war with us or the rest of Europe or the US in fifty years as by then they will be outsourcing work to us because of our cheaper labour rates (I think it will actually be sooner than fifty years).
Steve.
so keen for the British Empire to break up after WW11
It does... but only in binary.
Steve.
You guys sure like to fight, dontcha?
China will not want to be at war with us or the rest of Europe or the US in fifty years as by then they will be outsourcing work to us because of our cheaper labour rates (I think it will actually be sooner than fifty years).
Steve.
I once rang Directory Enquirys to get the phone number of somebody who lives in a village about twenty miles away from my home that I have visited several times, the Directory Enquirys man who answered the phone who had an almost unintelligible Indian accent told me the place where the person I needed to contact lives didn't exist, and when I asked him where he was speaking from he replied "Bangalore"
Thanks Matt, who said we speak the same language ?, I once found to my cost when I was in the military that to "knock someone up" means something completely different in North AmericaFor the un-initiated ...
"Directory Enquiries" is the same as "Directory Assistance", and if you are young, the Directory was a book with names and corresponding telephone numbers that you could look up.
And if someone "rang" someone, it means they called them up on the telephone.
Hope the translation services assist you
For the un-initiated ...
"Directory Enquiries" is the same as "Directory Assistance", and if you are young, the Directory was a book with names and corresponding telephone numbers that you could look up.
And if someone "rang" someone, it means they called them up on the telephone.
Hope the translation services assist you
......with a handle on its side which for some unknown (to me) reason you would crank several times and ask "Sue-Ellen" to get you "Hank" on the "line".....
I believe the cranking rang the bell or lit a light at "Sue Ellen's" end so she would "see" or "hear" you and connect to your hole on the board.
Um, most of them still have keypads. At least phones other than mobile smartphones do.
Thanks, Roger.
I stand corrected... I was speaking mainly for the benefit of modern folks, to whom Sue-Ellen is known as "Siri"...
and we have come full circle.
It's before my time but I think cranking the handle generated electricity to signify to the operator on the switchboard you wanted a line to call somebody, when the operator answered you asked them to connect you with the required number.Further to this excellent definition, the telephone had a "keypad" with which to enter the numbers,
before which there was a "dial" which you rotated with your index finger for entering the numbers,
before which you could pick up the phone, and if there wasn't another "party" on the line, you could ask the "operator" to connect something like, "REGENT 3-7833"...
before which a phone was a microwave oven-sized box with a handle on its side which for some unknown (to me) reason you would crank several times and ask "Sue-Ellen" to get you "Hank" on the "line", all whilst holding something that looked like a draft glass to your ear and speaking into a funnel on the front of the phone.
Note: for 99% of this history, photographers used something called "film" in their cameras... and they liked it.
The differences between the UK and the US/Canada are not really any worse than the regional variations within the US itself.
It's before my time but I think cranking the handle generated electricity to signify to the operator on the switchboard you wanted a line to call somebody, when the operator answered you asked them to connect you with the required number.
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